andrewjl

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by andrewjl 6y ago
> If they are subsidizing it through consumer choices they do have accountability. This cannot happen if the company is a monopoly, by definition. > A good test of this is a thought experiment of "leadership replaced by an edgelo
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by andrewjl 6y ago
Except in the case of a both legislation and enforcement, they spend tens of millions of dollars seeking to avoid it. Often successfully. The former is via lobbying and the latter is the good old "revolving door policy." Ex. Nick
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by andrewjl 6y ago
It's hard to read this as anything but some form of what-aboutism. However, I'll bite, whatever you think of NSA and DoD, because of FISA, congressional oversight, and generally centuries of respect for rule of law, you can't
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by andrewjl 6y ago
You are absolutely correct in that antitrust enforcement in the US is broken. I think it's also clear that most big tech is monopolistic in nature. However that's not the cause of its leadership, if anything it's an obstacle.
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by andrewjl 6y ago
> They shouldn't, the accountability should come with regulation ensuring fair competition and respect for user data, not just going ahead and reducing competitiveness of US companies by breaking them up. Nothing about Google even a
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by andrewjl 6y ago
Why should consumers subsidize R&D by a company with no accountability to them what so ever? US is the leader in many tech areas due to free market competition as well as defense spending, not Google's R&D. Google is also happy
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by andrewjl 6y ago
The problem in this specific case isn't necessarily just in the net benefits of fossil fuels but instead in how the benefits and their associated costs are distributed. I'm certain that the profits of the MNCs pushing this will no
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by andrewjl 6y ago
I think govt subsidy on compostable biodegradable plastics would be good too. Especially if the subsidy was not just on the bags themselves, but the research and process engineering to make them more cost-competitive. In the US at least, ci
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by andrewjl 6y ago
Wait until plastic becomes the sole source of petrochemical demand. Big Oil is getting ready. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/climate/oil-kenya-africa-...
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by andrewjl 6y ago
Seems like an interesting computational ecology problem.
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by andrewjl 6y ago
Why? Especially when it makes it easier to relate or empathize to those same severe symptoms. And why does the intensity of ADHD correspond to its meaningfulness as a condition or a concept?
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by andrewjl 6y ago
This is a terrific policy. I think irrespective of how good the App Store policies are, every user should be given the right to load non-App Store apps if they so choose. It's totally fine if it's buried 10-levels deep in settings
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by andrewjl 6y ago
Building alternatives that people will use is itself a technical problem, just not one that's as crisp as the algorithmic issues related to distributed computing.
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by andrewjl 6y ago
I think that, given the change we expect to see in human-computer interaction over the next few decades, you can't say never. The majority of the obstacles you outlined are not fundamental but rather implementation problems that can be
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by andrewjl 8y ago
I agree with your assessment on the difficulty of the problem. Where I differ is my (somewhat optimistic, admittedly) view that an existential climate crisis is the kind of exogenous shock needed to force humanity to cooperate against a &qu
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by andrewjl 8y ago
That's not even close to showing it as a non-issue. I'll share one example, what happens if a landlord of an older / aging building filled with rent-controlled tenants wants to tear it down and replace with newer and denser c
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by andrewjl 8y ago
You can't have one without the other! I.e. someone has to pay the garbage men.
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by andrewjl 8y ago
This article reads like a paean to a place in the author's nostalgic imagination. The NYC of the past that he describes was dirty, filthy, and downright dangerous. I grew up there at the tail-end of that era, and it wasn't a place
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by andrewjl 8y ago
The US needs a serious industrial policy to counter this. Couple of ideas: - A venture fund, similar to In-Q-Tel, focused on investing in cutting edge manufacturing tech startups. It'll make sense to focus on defense applications initi
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by andrewjl 8y ago
Desktops are dying while they realized highest Mac revenue ever this quarter? Not following the logic.
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by andrewjl 8y ago
I don't think it's impossible if the standard for "do no harm" was specified very rigorously. Also I'd be interested to see if it's possible to make it an adversarial process, similar to how corporations define
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by andrewjl 8y ago
The solution to this is to ban by default, and put the onus on the company developing the solution to prove it is safe. There are many drawbacks to this, BUT it does address the root cause of your concern.
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by andrewjl 9y ago
Batteries can be replaced for peanuts thanks to Apple's new battery replacement program. (free or $29 for out of warranty if it's a newer model, https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power )
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by andrewjl 9y ago
Seattle has an equivalent risk of earthquakes due to the Cascadia fault
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by andrewjl 9y ago
Cuts both ways, for me domain-specific blogs and goodreads (with reviews by other people) influenced my book buying choices way more than any any algorithm and I suspect I'm not the only one.
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by andrewjl 9y ago
Faster than Seattle on a population-adjusted basis?
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by andrewjl 9y ago
This is a reply to the sibling comment rather than the parent (which I largely agree with). Politically incorrect rhetoric aside, it's clear than Vancouver's housing shortage can be easily addressed by free market mechanics. Incre
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by andrewjl 9y ago
The IRS will only tax you on realized gains. Assuming individuals bought BTC (or alt coins or any other asset for that matter), and are still holding it, no taxes will be due until it is sold. If the individual sold their BTC in 2017, then
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by andrewjl 9y ago
I don't know about that. Institutional investors have a raft of obligations to their clients, including not doing things like intentionally making their investment go down in value. This is a complicated topic, hence why securities law
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by andrewjl 9y ago
That disqualifies every institutional investor from being called an investor

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